Beyond the Water's Edge
How Partisanship Corrupts U.S. Foreign Policy
1st Edition
Published on 22. November 2023
328 pages
978-0-231-55975-1 (ISBN)
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Paul R. Pillar examines how and why partisanship has undermined U.S. foreign policy, especially over the past three decades.
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Paul R. Pillar is a nonresident senior fellow of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University and a nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He served in several senior positions in the U.S. intelligence community and is a retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. His previous Columbia University Press books are Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform (2011) and Why America Misunderstands the World: National Experience and Roots of Misperception (2016).
Content
Preface
Introduction: Parties, Policies, and Pathologies
1. From Bitter Division to Good Feelings
2. Growing into a World Power
3. The Acme of Bipartisanship
4. Sliding Back into Corruption
5. Politics as War
6. A Demagogue Takes Over a Party
7. Identifying with Foreign Interests
8. Partisanship Entrenched
9. Consequences and Prospects
Notes
Index
Introduction: Parties, Policies, and Pathologies
1. From Bitter Division to Good Feelings
2. Growing into a World Power
3. The Acme of Bipartisanship
4. Sliding Back into Corruption
5. Politics as War
6. A Demagogue Takes Over a Party
7. Identifying with Foreign Interests
8. Partisanship Entrenched
9. Consequences and Prospects
Notes
Index
